Offshore wind consultants

We provide strategic communications and engagement strategy for the offshore wind sector. We work with you to identify audiences, articulate objectives and foster support for initiatives using mediums and forums specifically tailored to your organisational context and project type.

Navigating the complexities of multiple regulatory frameworks and stakeholder engagement needs specialist knowledge and experience. Getting this right can prevent your project from becoming tangled in unnecessary and expensive delays and escalating development and operating costs.

We have advised on offshore energy projects for 40 years – our local expertise is backed by an international network to help clients navigate the nuances of increasingly complex regulatory landscapes.

After projects reach development consent, we also help clients fulfil the conditions they need to satisfy and manage their ongoing marine and environmental compliance needs.

The environmental assessment process for offshore wind can be complex and demanding. Our team of dedicated and experienced offshore wind Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) project managers are supported by a breadth of in-house technical specialists. This team comprises our problem solvers – working closely with our clients to find solutions to complex issues.

When you’re looking to apply international standards at a local level, it helps to engage with teams who have a wealth of international experience to back you up. Our teams have experience advising in a range of regulatory environments around the world. Bringing this experience to bear on their projects, they give their clients confidence in the high standard of advice provided.

Uncertainty regarding offshore ground conditions can introduce unwanted ambiguity to a development project – particularly during a competitive bidding process. RPS are acknowledged experts in the assessment and interpretation of ground conditions, reducing uncertainty and facilitating optimisation and informed decision-making. Find out more here.

Offshore surveys can be costly from a financial and a programme perspective. It’s critical that surveys are appropriately designed to achieve a given objective. Our teams of in-house technical specialists have deep expertise designing surveys. Our hard-earned experience has been built up through our involvement from the very early days of the offshore wind industry in Europe.

We have specialists who design offshore geophysical and geotechnical surveys, metocean surveys and the full range of environmental surveys (onshore and offshore). We routinely sit alongside our clients helping to procure and manage surveys as well as managing quality control and analysing outputs. Read more about our range of offshore surveys

We work with clients to assess the risks from Unexploded Ordnance to their project sites before construction. For offshore wind development, we support wind farm developers, cable installation contractors and transmission system operators.

We provide high-quality and durable LiDAR buoys for the site-specific long-term measurement of wind resource. Our buoy design is supported by decades of offshore measurement experience in the harshest environments, together with the application of industry-leading technology. Our buoys are environmentally friendly – they’ve been carefully designed with moorings that minimise seabed disturbance and marine life entanglement risk, which simplifies the permitting process. Read more here.

We provide unique metocean forecasting that integrates site-specific, real-time measurements with advanced model predictions to provide high-quality forecasts. These improve significantly on traditional forecast products, providing our clients with better information on which to make important decisions. Read more about our metocean sciences and technology solutions

Using ocean data, visualisation systems and data analysis to enhance operations for offshore wind

Operating in complex ocean environments, offshore wind developers and contractors face a breadth of planning, implementation, and operational challenges. Already limited windows of opportunity for on-site construction and operational maintenance are often reduced by changing weather and uncertainty regarding MetOcean conditions. Effectively navigating this complex network of challenges requires integrated software systems, like RPS OceansMap, to ensure success.

Learn more about OceansMap here.